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@Gary: I choose when I take my ADHD medication. Sometimes I take it when I don’t really want to, but I choose to because I have no better alternative. I’ll take a twist on Barkley’s prosthesis analogy to explain how I see it. When I broke my ankle, I didn’t want to use crutches, but I often chose to. Sometimes I’d hobble/walk if it was just a few steps, but most times I’d use my crutches. I could have chose to hop on one leg, or push through the pain of limping on it. My shoulders got tired and my armpits got chaffed, however I still got to move from A to B.
I didn’t get much pressure to use my crutches and (so far) I don’t get any pressure to take my medication. I think I understand the issue of feeling pressured — directly or even indirectly by societal expectations. Gathering the willpower to stand up and say, “It’s my body and I choose what I do to it” will help you in a lot more situations than when you feel pressured to pop a pill in your mouth.
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